I got a mail from the hiring manager and fixed the date of the interview a couple of days later. The position was supposed to be for a validation engineer position I suppose but was termed as component design engineer as most of the jobs in Intel are termed that way. It was a 1 hr long interview and I was asked pretty much most of the basics from Computer Architecture like Caches, Pipelining and details, questions regarding my project etc; Logic Design like Counters, Pattern detector FSM, flipflops latches difference and specifically DFF design; VLSI design like inverter characteristics, 2 input nand design and sizing, dynamic gates, dominos, pass transistor Mux design. Some questions which caught me off guard were: What is polling, what are bus protocols, how do you handle interrupts, components of motherboard, what are chipsets etc. Overall experience was good, if you have your basics right then it should be a cakewalk. Goodluck!

Questions on physical design concepts , syn and apr Sta questions about constraints Concepts of transistor physics Phone screen, multiple round, followed by conversation with the hiring manager Overall good experience